American Sociological Review Abstract: Recent religious declines in the United States are for a large part driven by the growing number of Americans who were raised religiously but left religion in the transition to adulthood. …
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Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States by Walker Kahn (2024)
American Sociological Review Abstract: The financialization of the U.S. economy has had important implications for household well-being, but the mechanisms connecting financialization and precarity have not been fully identified. This research identifies mortgage foreclosure as …
Did Immigrant Arrest Rates Change During the Trump Administration? Evidence From California and Texas by Michael T. Light, Laura Boisten, and Jungmyung Kim (2023)
Crime & Delinquency Abstract: Despite substantial legal and policy debates, whether immigrant arrest rates changed during the Trump presidency remains surprisingly understudied. This is partially because immigration status is rarely available in crime data. We …
Vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health by Florencia Torche and Jenna Nobles (2023)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Abstract: In utero exposure to COVID-19 infection may lead to large intergenerational health effects. The impact of infection exposure has likely evolved since the onset of the …
Housing Market Intermediaries (chapter) by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Robin Bartram, & Max Besbris (October 2023)
The Sociology of Housing: How Homes Shape Our Social Lives Summary: In 1947, the president of the American Sociological Association, Louis Wirth, argued for the importance of housing as a field of sociological research. It may …
Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race by Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron P. Jones, Tiffany S. Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, & Dorothy Farrar Edwards (May 2023)
Field Methods, Online First Abstract: Ethnoracial identity refers to the racial and ethnic categories that people use to classify themselves and others. How it is measured in surveys has implications for understanding inequalities. Yet how …
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing by Max Besbris & Gary Alan Fine (2023)
Theory & Society, May 2023 Abstract: Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves five core elements: mirroring, identifying, …
Spillover Effects of Prenatal Care Coordination on Older Siblings Beyond the Mother-Infant Dyad by David C. Mallinson, Felix Elwert, & Deborah B. Ehrenthal (2023)
Medical Care, April 2023 Abstract: Background- Pregnancy care coordination increases preventive care receipt for mothers and infants. Whether such services affect other family members’ health care is unknown. Objective- To estimate the spillover effect of …
Peer effects on academic self-concept: a large randomized field experiment by Tamás Keller, Jinho Kim, & Felix Elwert (2023)
European Sociological Review, February 2023 Abstract: Social theories posit that peers affect students’ academic self-concept (ASC). Most prominently, Big-Fish-Little-Pond, invidious comparison, and relative deprivation theories predict that exposure to academically stronger peers decreases students’ ASC, …
From the asylum official’s point of view: frames of perception and evaluation in refugee status determination by Katherine Jensen (2023)
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, February 2023 Abstract: In 2021, there were 4.6 million asylum claims pending globally. How does the state determine that someone qualifies for refugee status? To understand refugee status determination, …